Appearing normal

I’m probably an Aspie. Nothing’s certain yet, as the psychologist I had didn’t know jack-shit about it. Right now I’m waiting for a psychiatrist appointment in September – he’s reportedly a good one. But I can’t allow myself to hope too much, because if it falls through, and he turns out to not be as [...]

News: Spam is not spam

Sometimes I get spam comments – I suppose we all do. The filter catches it and I can delete spammity comments at my leisure. Sometimes, though, one of them catches my eye. That happened just now, this spam comment was just precious.
The wording?
Yooo..
I kno it has nothing to do with what you wrote, but have [...]

One small step at a time

Yesterday I was talking to two co-workers in the lunch room. We discussed the tragedy in Winnenden, and the fact that all victims except one had been female. I pointed out that the majority of victims being women or girls was actually a fact for the majority of school shootings during the past several decades. [...]

Cautious Eyes

I currently work in Customer Service in a Metro Cash & Carry. As some of you might know, this chain has regulars customers in the form of restaurants owners and night club owners who come to restock their fresh ingrdients nearly every day. So naturally, my colleagues in customer service recognize many of these regulars, [...]

Individuals and the Community

Yesterday Ilyka wrote this post. An altogether good post that had me nodding in agreement all the way through, even if I didn’t recognise all the things she referred to.
Towards the end, though, she touched on something that had me thinking somewhat further.
I also completely forgot how much importance this thing that you can call [...]

What’s yo izm?

I saw the words on the back cover of Erykah Badu’s album Mama’s Gun, and they reminded me of the recent troubles in the feminist blogosphere. I’ve been around far too little to know much of the background of all the problems, but many of the posts I’ve read that attempted to look at a [...]

Violent girls

I’m watching the news right now. They’re reporting on a violent attack on a 15 year old girl by seven other underage kids. The victim was stalked over the weekend, and was beaten up every day for two or three days (I didn’t quite catch that), the attackers not only beat her up pretty badly, [...]